New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-02-23
MINOR FEATURES OF LEGISLATION.
THE DAYS WORK IN BOTH HOUSES BILLS PAsSrI
IN THE SENATE.

THE DAYS WORK IN BOTH HoUsES-BILLs PASSED
IN THE SENATE
WASHINGTON, Feb. % In the Senate to-day the
presidnc officer presen ted communication from the
Secretary of the Interior, in reply to resolution in
During as to any rule In the Pension Office denying
hearing to applicants who have applied to Congress
10, relief The Secretary encloses a copy OF de-
cision on that subject made by Assistant Secretary
Jenks III February. 1886 and says that the matter
had not been called 10 his attention by appeal or
otherwise. Referred TO the Committee on Pensions
The presiding o1;eer also presented MESSAGES from
the President disappearing pension bills Tor Rachel
Aun Pierpont and JACOB Smith because IKE rrnso i
had ali been granted TO them regularly through The
Pension Office also pension bill Tor john ID. finchcr.
on the ground OF the absence OF disability Referred
10 the Committee on Petitions.
The presidn g officer also resented memorials from
thirteen Grand Army posts OF Ohio tor the pa sage
OF the Dependent Pension bill over the Presidents
veto and like memorials we're presented BY several
other Senators.
The Senate took up the bill making appropriations
for the expenses OF the government OF the District
OF Columbia. Mr.. Plumb made q statement IN regard
to the school accommodation. in tbs District, and
then the bill passed without amendment or
division.
On motion OF Mr.. Call, the senate bill to make
Tampa, Fla, port OF e"tr, was taken iron the
The bill making appropriations for the Military
| Academy then taken mp. read and passed.
Mr. Miller moved TO take up the bill to create She
Department OF Agriculture. Dir. Mcpherson. who
| addressed the Chair at the same instant complained
of his being able AT other times. to obtain
recoent The presiding officer remarked that the
criticism of the Senator was unjust. The Chair had
endea, ored to be entirely impartial. SMr MoPherson
repeated that only today. but tor several DAYS
he had been surprised at the action Of the Chair.
That all the criticism he would make at present
The bill Department OF Agriculture ha ling
been taken up, Mr. Mcpherson moved tuat 1t should
be postponed aud that the Pacific RoilroOd resolution
should DO taken up. The me ton defeated.
After discussion tv the order OF business. par
tcipated in by Me-sr, Miller, Van wyok, acPhefsOn
and Hoar Mr. Edmunds said that the r. ciic Railroad
resolution it troG- the House calculated
he would not say designed) to prevent getting for
ward With the business of tho Pacific railroads in a
definite and decisive way. Ii wond result IN oeay
Of one. two, three years. Tho Judiciary Com.
mittee however, had amended the House proposition,
go as 10 keep the investigation within such iims as
that il might be accomplished in reasonable tune,
and also by adding provisions that were OF real
sequence. As the resolution was reported back from
the Judiciary Committee, he Tor it. Therefore
IN ybody who supposed that he and other Senators
his side. who had voted against the motion Of the Sen
ator from NeweIsey, did with the idea OF prevent
ing acron that matter, was entirely mi.taken:
The Senate then addressed by Mr. Miller in ex-
PLANTATION and advocacy OF tue Agricultural bill The
bill went over unfinished busincss
The Senate at 500 o'clock went into secret session
and at $50 adjourned.
In the House Mr.. Bragg OF Wisconsin, from tho
Committee Military Affairs. reported tho bill which
il intended ss substitute tor the McAdOO bill. TO
provide for TIE OF frstclass modern guns
Tor the Navy and sea-coast and other defences Re-
ferred toCommttee of the Whole. The committee ro-
ports unanimously The report l. ar2ely subscription
OF the bill which published Yesterday, and defines
the objects OF its provisions and the considerations by
which he committee guided IN training IT,
Eulogcs delivered upon Senator Pike. OF New
| Hampshire. by Mossrs. HAYNES ami Gsinger, OF
New -Hampshire; Long. OF Massachusetts. Holman:
Massachusetts; Dingley, Of Maine, aud Cutcheon,
OF Michigan.